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The Daily AI Show

Sora Shuts Down, AI Science Speeds Up

25 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the US Department of Labor's AI literacy initiative?

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aloha everyone and welcome to another exciting day in the world of ai the das crew has scoured the world for the latest most interesting news in the aio sphere And in this week's AI and Science segment, we're going to be talking about the inroads and advancements in Alzheimer's research. So let's kick it off with Andy. What AI news from around the world do you have?

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35.907 - 46.227 Beth Lyons

Well, I want to introduce everyone to something that I thought was interesting. And then when I dug a little deeper into it, it was quite good. And it's from the U.S.

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Chapter 2: How are AI cow collars transforming agricultural practices?

46.247 - 80.217 Beth Lyons

Department of Labor. And it's an AI literacy initiative that's just been put out. It's called the Make America AI Ready Initiative, and it's designed to help anyone at any level of introduction to AI literacy, the basics, AI 101, foundational skills, foundational understanding, importantly, to try to prevent the misunderstandings that many, many people have about AI and how it works.

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80.798 - 99.538 Beth Lyons

And what's really interesting about it is that it's a simple, free course all on text. And you basically start out by just sending a text, ready, you say ready to 20202. And I did that this morning.

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Chapter 3: What role do robots play in hazardous jobs?

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And I did the first lesson. And it's pretty easy. It takes about five or six minutes to go through the first lesson. And it's enthusiastic and it's reading, right? I guess there may be an app where it'll read your texts to you, but I don't know that one. And so I just read through it.

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Chapter 4: How does Luma Labs enhance creative prototyping?

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It was quite good, actually. Bite-sized daily learning lessons. There's just seven days. So everybody should start it and try it. And I'm talking about everybody in the U.S.

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Chapter 5: Why did OpenAI decide to shut down Sora?

131.962 - 155.082 Beth Lyons

population. People who are watching the Daily AI Show probably know all of these things in much more depth and will be presented in this. It's a collaboration between a company called Arist, A-R-I-S-T. I had never heard of them before, but they're a learning platform, a teaching and learning platform. But I thought it was very interesting that they decided to do it entirely by text.

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155.686 - 176.549 Beth Lyons

And there is in the text, by the way, even though on this very first one, if you want to go a little deeper, go to this video, and you end up on YouTube looking at a video that's actually two years old, but it wasn't developed by the Department of Labor. It's by somebody else, maybe somebody affiliated with the Aris platform, a guy named Jeff Hsu.

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Chapter 6: How does Claude Code compare to OpenAI in coding workflows?

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But it was also very engaging and enthusiastic. filled with infographics, really well produced. So it kind of gave you some additional information and context about the basic principles of AI and how it works. So I invite all of you to try that. Anybody who wants to try it, just type ready to 20202.

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And is this a limited program or ostensibly it's going to be continuing for the foreseeable future?

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211.56 - 224.961 Beth Lyons

Well, let me share my screen here quickly and just show you that there appears to be a bigger initiative around AI literacy in the U.S. Department of Labor. And I don't know that this text-based program is likely to be the one

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224.941 - 249.278 Beth Lyons

is going to go on right there'll be other means of uh of doing this let me just show you what the u.s department of labor publishes this is the their ai literacy framework it's based on these five principles across the top understanding principles core concepts exploring ai uses

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249.73 - 275.805 Beth Lyons

you know, relevant use cases, direct AI effectively, how to provide context to an AI and how to create clear prompts, and then how to evaluate what's coming to you. Importantly, to understand how to, you know, determine whether something is right or wrong. So accuracy and relevance. And also importantly, the idea that you have to iterate.

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So when you're dealing with an AI, the first response is not necessarily going to be complete for your query, or it may have missed the mark in some way. So you have to kind of get engaged in a dialogue with AI. And then finally, some notes on ethics and security around AI. So they have all these effective delivery principles.

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So it was done, I'm sure, by some very competent educational and training experts. people out there. And I expect to see other programs come out of the AI literacy framework. Gotcha.

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Gotcha.

Chapter 7: What advancements are being made in Alzheimer's research with AI?

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Yeah, it's interesting. And it's kind of come out of nowhere, right? Or have you heard? I hadn't heard of it before, yeah. Gotcha. All righty.

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322.31 - 340.021 Karl Yeh

So the initiative that was signed or executive order came into being. Like it came into, what am I saying? It came into.

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Existence.

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343.827 - 344.949 Karl Yeh

No.

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It's manifested. There you go.

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No, it was always manifested. The date that it had to be put into play has passed. That's what I'm trying to say, whatever that word is. Sorry, everybody. Good Wednesday to all. So there are more agencies that are putting forth their response to that. How are they creating the environment for AI to meet what President Trump ordered in the executive order?

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Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay.

Chapter 8: What are the implications of AI on future treatments for Alzheimer's?

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Yeah, we'll see.

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381.553 - 386.32 Karl Yeh

Implementation. Thank you, Greg. Yes. Implementation.

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387.093 - 388.255 Beth Lyons

That's Cisco.

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388.275 - 395.209 Karl Yeh

Oh, is it Cisco? Damn. Thank you, Cisco. Always giving Greg credit. Thanks, Cisco.

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So, Beth, what is your most interesting story for the day?

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All right. Well, this isn't Department of Labor, but this is something that started as like, well, that's kind of curious. And then got a little funkier. So a Bloomberg article came out talking about Peter Thiel's Founders Fund backing a company bringing AI to cow herding. And it was valued at a $2 billion valuation. Now, what it is, is actually a collar that the cows wear.

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And it gives, it's a, the company is called Halter. It's a New Zealand startup. And it makes AI-powered smart collars for cattle. Bloomberg reports that the deal would value Halter at more than $2 billion. The round is still in talks. This is just made for viral what the heck.

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Halter's system uses collars, an app, and what it calls the cowgorithm to monitor cows, create virtual fences, and monitor herd health. So it's real ag tech. And the halter's collars guide cattle using audio vibration and virtual fencing. So it creates opportunities to manage movement without traditional physical fences or manual herding.

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And the bigger story outside of the punchline is labor automation, right? So how are we moving the cows? And can we move the cows with a reduction in infrastructure and labor? Pasture management giving ranchers live data on animal location and health.

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